Re: [Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Luke Paireepinart wrote: > csv is comma-separated values, right? > you should be able to just do a string replace of tabs -> commas on each > line in the new file... > or is the csv format more complicated than that? Yes, it is more complicated than that because the data itself may contain comma

Re: [Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Switanek, Nick wrote: > I have a long tab-delimited text file that I’d like to convert into csv > format so I can read it into a statistics package. Are you sure the statistics package can't read tab-delimited data directly? For example in R you can use read.delim(). > Here’s what I’ve tried to

Re: [Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv

2007-01-26 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Switanek, Nick wrote: > > I have a long tab-delimited text file that I’d like to convert into > csv format so I can read it into a statistics package. > > I’ve been using Excel to do the format conversion up till now, but now > I have more rows than Excel can handle, and would like to avoid going

[Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv

2007-01-26 Thread Switanek, Nick
I have a long tab-delimited text file that I'd like to convert into csv format so I can read it into a statistics package. I've been using Excel to do the format conversion up till now, but now I have more rows than Excel can handle, and would like to avoid going through Excel if possible. I

Re: [Tutor] Cause-Effect, Isikawa, fishbone diagram

2007-01-26 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
Hi János, Reportlab is a very complete PDF library, but it is not very simple, and does not have shortcuts for what you need to do. You'd have to come up with the code to get a fishbone diagram from the textfile. But it does help you with the PDF. There are some graphing packages, but they're

Re: [Tutor] Python code to connect using PPPoE

2007-01-26 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
Hi Johan, PPPoE is both in the Linux Kernel (for the low level work) and as some executables and scripts. It fou want to establish a connection from a Python script (E.G. ehn the computer has no internet access and you need it) The best way would be to call the appropriate utilities, and parse

[Tutor] How to use diff.py?

2007-01-26 Thread Dick Moores
I've found diff.py in Python25\Tools\Scripts. But I don't see how to use it to find the differences between 2 files, say file1.txt and file2.txt. I was hoping it would work like unix's diff, but could someone explain? Thanks, Dick Moores UliPad <>: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/UliPad _

Re: [Tutor] question about *args and functions

2007-01-26 Thread shawn bright
Great, gents, thanks. tried it out and is working fine, this will clean up a lot of stuff for me. thanks for your help ! shawn On 1/26/07, Wesley Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, You could default it to None and check in your script to see if it has changed. def some_function(req

Re: [Tutor] question about *args and functions

2007-01-26 Thread Wesley Brooks
Greetings, You could default it to None and check in your script to see if it has changed. def some_function(req_var, req_var2, un_req_var=None): if un_req_var != None: dosomething else: dosomethingelse Wesley Brooks. On 26/01/07, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lo

Re: [Tutor] question about *args and functions

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
shawn bright wrote: > lo there all, > > if i have a function that sometimes needs a value passed to it and > sometimes not, is this where i use *args ? No, use an optional argument. > > like this > > def some_function(req_var, req_var2, un_req_var): > do some stuff > return value > >

Re: [Tutor] question about *args and functions

2007-01-26 Thread Andre Engels
2007/1/26, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: lo there all, if i have a function that sometimes needs a value passed to it and sometimes not, is this where i use *args ? No. *args is used if there are arguments that could occur more than once. like this def some_function(req_var, req_var2,

[Tutor] question about *args and functions

2007-01-26 Thread shawn bright
lo there all, if i have a function that sometimes needs a value passed to it and sometimes not, is this where i use *args ? like this def some_function(req_var, req_var2, un_req_var): do some stuff return value how would i use this if sometimes i need to process un_req_var and sometimes

Re: [Tutor] Optimal solution in dealing with huge databases inpython

2007-01-26 Thread johnf
On Friday 26 January 2007 00:40, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Shadab Sayani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I got your point.But before inserting data I need to store it > > into a file in a format supported by postgresql.Wont this > > operation incur a performance hit as it includes writing > > to a fi

Re: [Tutor] Inheriting Classes and __init__

2007-01-26 Thread Wesley Brooks
Thanks again, that is a great help. Wesley Brooks On 26/01/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wesley Brooks wrote: > > Dear Users, > > > > I would like a class to inherit the methods from wxVTKRenderWindow, > > but to add a few lines of code to __init__ . I would prefer not to > > copy

Re: [Tutor] Inheriting Classes and __init__

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Wesley Brooks wrote: > Dear Users, > > I would like a class to inherit the methods from wxVTKRenderWindow, > but to add a few lines of code to __init__ . I would prefer not to > copy the whole init method from the inherited class into the > inheriting class. What is the best approach for this? I g

[Tutor] Inheriting Classes and __init__

2007-01-26 Thread Wesley Brooks
Dear Users, I would like a class to inherit the methods from wxVTKRenderWindow, but to add a few lines of code to __init__ . I would prefer not to copy the whole init method from the inherited class into the inheriting class. What is the best approach for this? I guess that if I have an init in th

Re: [Tutor] issuing system commands

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Dan Klose wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to break my nasty habit of doing EVERYTHING in perl and for > this task I figure python is one of the better options. > > I would like to do several things: > > 1. take user input - this will be a password > 2. use some sort of function that converts t

[Tutor] issuing system commands

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Klose
Hi All, I am trying to break my nasty habit of doing EVERYTHING in perl and for this task I figure python is one of the better options. I would like to do several things: 1. take user input - this will be a password 2. use some sort of function that converts the unser input to * or the typical

Re: [Tutor] how to pause or stop a running python script?

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Wong Vincent wrote: > Hi, > If I use run a script which consist the following line: > -->os.popen("python c:\\test.py") > > Is it possible for me to interrupt the pause/stop the running of > "test.py" halfway? Maybe this thread on c.l.python is helpful... http://tinyurl.com/2bpvjo Kent __

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for Python

2007-01-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 1/26/07, OkaMthembo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how useable is vim on Windows? Very! I've used Vim on Windows since the 5.3 version, it only gets better. Like Alan said there is a learning curve, but once you've "got it" there is no going back. > i wish i could learn Unix. which distro do you

Re: [Tutor] how to pause or stop a running python script?

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wong Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > If I use run a script which consist the following line: > -->os.popen("python c:\\test.py") > > Is it possible for me to interrupt the pause/stop the running of > "test.py" halfway? There is a recipe for this somewhere. I don't think you can do

Re: [Tutor] Optimal solution in dealing with huge databases inpython

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"Shadab Sayani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > I got your point.But before inserting data I need to store it > into a file in a format supported by postgresql.Wont this > operation incur a performance hit as it includes writing > to a file which is on disk? Unless your data is already in a

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for Python

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"OkaMthembo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > how useable is vim on Windows? Very usable. I'm an old Unix user who used to use emacs primarily. But when I moved to Windoze I found I didn't like emacs as much so I moved to vim and I don't regret it. > I saw on its site that it was developed > prim

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for Python

2007-01-26 Thread OkaMthembo
hi guys, how useable is vim on Windows? i saw on its site that it was developed primarily as a Unix tool. i wish i could learn Unix. which distro do you think is good to learn? ive been eyeing FreeBSD but ive got untouched Ubuntus. thanks_up_ front() "Shortash" On 1/25/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for Python

2007-01-26 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 25 January 2007 03:12, Shadab Sayani wrote: > Hi, > I am using vim editor to code my project in python.Is there a good IDE > where in I type the name of the class object and then dot then all the > attributes of the object are displayed so on.I tried to install IDLE but I > have n